Xueqi Wang
Author directory2026
Knsight: Self-Evolving Agentic System for Production Cloud Root Cause Analysis
Bo Lv | Hongge He | Xueqi Wang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
Bo Lv | Hongge He | Xueqi Wang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track
Cloud incident response increasingly relies on LLM agents that translate heterogeneous telemetry and natural-language alerts into operator-facing diagnoses. However, in production RCA workflows, LLM agents commonly serialize these structured signals into text, losing the temporal and topological structure that is critical for diagnosis. We present Knsight, an industry-deployed RCA agent that converts operational telemetry into chart-image canvases and uses a frozen multimodal LLM to reason directly over visual evidence. Knsight introduces Vision Recursive-of-Thought (V-RoT), an iterative diagnose-review-refine loop in which a Reviewer module inspects each canvas and decides whether to refine, zoom in, or stop. To adapt across recurring production failures, Knsight further converts Reviewer feedback into a shared, alias-substituted skill library used at inference time. Offline, on the OpenRCA benchmark, Knsight improves aggregate Correct by 7.0 points over the strongest text-only baseline and reduces timeouts from 117 to 11. Online, in a 90-day deployment across 1,284 production incidents, Knsight increases top-1 acceptance from 38.9% to 71.4% and reduces time-to-acknowledge and time-to-resolve by 59% and 32%, respectively.